{"id":790674,"date":"2026-05-12T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790674\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:13","slug":"warriors-notes-giannis-11th-pick-prospects-kerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790674\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Notes: Giannis, 11th Pick, Prospects, Kerr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Warriors<\/strong> should \u2014 and almost certainly will \u2014 be among the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/bucks-open-for-business-on-antetokounmpo-trade-offers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suitors<\/a> for <strong>Bucks<\/strong> forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetgi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-11_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/strong>, but if they\u2019re unable to pull off a deal, it doesn\u2019t mean the pursuit was a failure, argues <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/analysis-giannis-antetokounmpo-possible-trade\/1937328\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of trading for Antetokounmpo now carries much more risk than it would\u2019ve several years ago, when the team first viewed the two-time MVP as its \u201choly grail,\u201d Poole writes. The Warriors\u2019 best current offer \u2014 centered around draft picks but not much in the way of young players \u2014 could also theoretically be topped by several rival teams, Poole observes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Poole thinks it\u2019s the right call to trade for the 31-year-old star, assuming he\u2019s open to the idea and Golden State can convince Milwaukee\u2019s front office to get on board. He just doesn\u2019t view that outcome as likely.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more on the Warriors:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"longlis\">\n<li>Assistant general manager <strong><strong>Larry Harris<\/strong><\/strong> expressed optimism before the draft lottery that the Warriors would select a prospect they like if they stayed at the 11th pick, which would up happening, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draft-lottery-11-pick\/1937125\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Poole writes in another story<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve heard the noise,\u201d Harris said when asked about the top-four prospects being in their own tier. \u201cCertainly, there\u2019s four players that everybody seems to talk about when I look at all the mock drafts and everything. But the way we look at it is we really believe it\u2019s beyond 11. But up to 11, we feel really, really, really good about whatever player lands in our lap.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draft-prospects-yaxel-lendeborg-karim-lopez\/1937311\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a> lists five \u201cvery different\u201d prospects the Warriors could target at No. 11, including Michigan\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/yaxel-lendeborg-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-11_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yaxel Lendeborg<\/a><\/strong> and his college teammate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/aday-mara-2.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-11_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aday Mara<\/a><\/strong>. Johnson also weighs the pros and cons of each prospect, particularly from Golden State\u2019s perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7267979\/2026\/05\/10\/steve-kerr-warriors-contract-extension-coaching-retirement-nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcus Thompson II of The Athletic<\/a> isn\u2019t surprised that <strong>Steve Kerr<\/strong> signed a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/steve-kerr-to-remain-with-warriors-on-two-year-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-year deal<\/a> to stay the Warriors\u2019 head coach and views Kerr as the fitting person to guide the rest of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-12_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s career. While he acknowledges Kerr will have to evolve his way of thinking in some respects, Thompson also believes Kerr has earned an enormous amount of respect and trust over the course of his long career and is definitely the right coach if the Warriors end up acquiring another star player.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Warriors should \u2014 and almost certainly will \u2014 be among the suitors for Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[322884,3368,62,3366,18767,67,132,68,161966],"class_list":{"0":"post-790674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aday-mara","9":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stephen-curry","12":"tag-steve-kerr","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-yaxel-lendeborg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116560692877687874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}